Peden’s Stone by Auchensoul Hill near Barr

The field preacher Alexander Peden is said to have held a conventicle at a distinctive whin stone one-and-a-half miles from the village of Barr in Barr parish, Carrick. Is Peden’s Stone still there?

The stone does not appear on old or new OS maps, but it was recorded in 1892:

‘About 6½ miles from Girvan, and 1½ from Barr village, there stands on a hillside, near the Lane Toll, a large whin boulder which goes under the name of Peden’s Stone, as marking the site of one of his conventicles. This stone is 5 feet in height and 15 [feet] in circumference, and looks down on the Stinchar valley in front, with Auchensole hill on the immediate right, and Shalloch-on-Minnoch on the remote left.’ (Roderick Lawson, Places of Interest About Girvan, 121-2.)